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|isbnauthor=0008384983Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Things There are not what they seem''. It was few greater joys than a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen book which lives up to get to her half-brother's flat in Parisa compelling premise. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy And this is one of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=07603735580008517061|title=Nordic KnitsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sue FlandersStig Abell
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatFormer Metropolitan Police detective, MittenJake Johnson, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading has settled into his rustic life at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''Little Sky. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and local traditions from Norwayher daughter Diana, Sweden as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Iceland. There are a few sweaters relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or jackets but not this is the majority of patterns are future she wants for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats herself and bags. her daughter? All are bright For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and cheerful and very cosyputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=19160720381786482126|title=The House in the Hollow Janus Stone (The Talbot SagaDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Allie CresswellElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire Builders were demolishing an old house in November 1811. TwentyNorwich -seventhe site was going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to when they discovered the house in the hollowbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The two women are angry Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherDCI Harry Nelson. It's strengths and weaknesses: difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''She t, that she is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath pregnant with his child as a facade result of respectability, the deplorable truth''one night they spent together some three months ago. Hester Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is furious about Jocelyn's refusal prone to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told sudden bouts of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshiresickness.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0008551324|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's easy unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to forget at times that The Naked Donapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't Fear s prepared to tell the police where the Water isn't actually fictionbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, because is someone big and it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timeswill be worth the police doing what he wants. This And what he wants is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided be transferred to an open prison to accompany serve the remainder of his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast sentence and at times painful journeyto get an early parole date. There are tense moments Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itshe's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader even prepared to perfectly envisage do the environments other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and people describedanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0008405026|title=Unhinged A Stranger in the Family (Volume 3) (Blix and RammMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, investigation ground to a crime journalisthalt. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleaguesNow, Kovicher mother, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesHelena, she tries to contact and her superior, Blixfather are dead in their bed. Before she can reach himInitially, however, she is murdered, and Blixit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's daughter Iselin who shares something about the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by positioning of the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What had Kovic discovered? looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And what did Blix and Ramm uncover Kerrigan is convinced that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0571379877|title=Age of AshThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's four bridgesalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. she Edward has a knife been in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at love with Stanza since their thinnest university days - and all things are possiblehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the night between the funeral two of them kissing in a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruleddark passageway.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Jo Callaghan|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?
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|isbn=1399613073
|title=Moral Injuries
|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Kate Harding Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communicationsa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. It's Anjali is the last interview free spirit of the day group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at one of Londona drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the building to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be something specialan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Maggie This time, Kateit's recruitment agenttheir teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is keen the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state London School of mind: Kate assumes that this Economics. Stevenson is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job bright - extremely bright - and she he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlybe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1035021803|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'is'' the s back now because of beyond: therea request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's not even any light pollution which close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is why it was dead and the perfect place circumstances seem suspicious, to land illegal deliveries of drugssay the least. Jimmy McLeish thought that he Arthur was onto a nice little earnerthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, only to find that Maccashe feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man he thought he or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was working with, murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is deadwhat happens after you're eighteen. His remains would never be foundWell, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. The delivery I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is hijacked by Davie and Callum- frankly - quite frightening. As Of course, I could research the possibilities and the story progresses weprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'll get to know them quite wellre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn= B09NDJ77LM086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Me and My ShadowThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Deborah StoneJennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What happens when someone is pushed too far and s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they begin 've been murdered, but to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that no one loved you? And how far would you go her father wants to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off move the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painfamily 'Down South'. When you'' Rachel re from Yorkshire, Down South is in a current conversation with her psychiatristfrightening, foreign place, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsbest avoided. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake For Miv, sometimes even contemptuous of the move would mean leaving herbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. You can see that it She's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelworried about the dangers or that her Mum's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving claritystopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15294096591398524085|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WChristopher Edge|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps movie marathon at their local cinema, a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular place that has the United States government has made her its Ambassador nickname of Woke'The Black Hole'. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the governmentmovie starts, including they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the Shaming Conference and next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating cinema, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZRachel Greenlaw|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with ''I can hear the newspaper and song of the case she was covering was her big chancesea. It was even more important to her than The call of the celebrity wedding she was to attend deep, the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel answering beat in the North Yorkshire countrysidemy heart. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'It'll be brilliants father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, just remembershe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, donas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't let go s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of my handher home and the ones she holds most dear.''|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=1529135362James Sherwood Metts|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Things have been a long drive to bit sticky for the weekend retreat in NorthumbriaEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, right up near the Scottish borders often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had this technological change and starting to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each think of other for a long , new ways to spend time but Emily was a bit of , along came an outsiderawful pandemic. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she Life was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby pretty much shut down and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellalong with it, Rob's deadall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelMatthew Tree|title=We'll Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelKnow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeLiterary Fiction|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be appropriate. Stories of different from his father, a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great drunk and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and - after reading - I agree with himwho had endless crises of self confidence. He says that he's written it So Tim applied himself to inform and provoke thoughthis studies, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and distressing issues set himself high but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1787634884A G Slatter|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Our story opens in December 2019'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, before most all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of us had even heard the Briar's, a family of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a major issuesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. WeWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town're in Farley County Courts leader, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliEllie takes her place beside her. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major challenges come her way left, right and thatcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, regardless putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the outcomeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, this is not going to work out well for anyoneunder threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1529900360|title=The Language of FoodGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had the slightest inclination been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to boil an eggask for his help on difficult cases. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a local woman with psychologist only worked for a troubled home lifewhile. Together Finally, it was Robin, they testDelaware's partner, craftwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, refine and reshape though. Two lovers were murdered in the world swimming pool of domestic cookery, reinventing a remote property in Bel Air. He was the recipe book heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and changing it's not the face Italian. But which of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1529395224|title=LokiLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got Siôn Rowlands fell into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banishedveterinary science accidentally. And transformed – for Loki is spending His father was a month both in exile GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the physical form of a middlestrain that being on-school kid here call put on Earth. Hehis father's guarded by life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a giant and family friend who was a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular vet and more successful brother of was convinced this was the twojob for him. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation Before long, and get he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it dream since he has to write the text we read in was a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progresschild. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do If anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going he'd wanted to be a walk in the parkprofessional footballer...right?|isbn=1406399752
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|isbn=00084544420861541774|title=A Flicker in the DarkNye of Pheasants|author=Stacy WillinghamSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's May 2019 close friend and Dr Chloe Davisformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a medical psychologistshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, is completing Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a session street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a new patientknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Lacey is suffering mentally Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what it's like evidence came to light that suggested that he might have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, planned to murder the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to Now he could be facing the policedeath penalty. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which help as any interference from another police force could provoke a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, diplomatic incident and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What Iwouldn've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, t help Danny at all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964
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|isbnauthor=1732898731Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=There was The Perfect Passion Company is a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art suppliesdating agency in Edinburgh, stuffed toys run by Ness and the like: operating as an alternative to all the things which most children have online apps in abundanceproviding a more personal, tailored service. The Boy's delight was in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happybusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. As he grew Katie is coming out of a break up and became with a Manbad boyfriend, his life became more complicated and he dealt with so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this by getting bigger new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and better boxesthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Look carefully at the pictures Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and youthere'll see that one of them has s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a padlock...hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B09MN1526W0811771741|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Liz MistryMelissa Leapman
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|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the third murder in the space of ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a few weeks and they've all been because collection of machetes used on teenagersknits from toys to blankets. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik Some will be quick knits - others are amongst of the first to arrive on 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this time, itfire's going to be differentvariety. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there projects are similarities but divided by the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going time they'll take to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All the White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In postcomplete -WWI Englandless than five hours, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathanfive to ten hours, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity ten to live life as his authentic self twenty hours and true gender, without more than twenty hours. All the disapproval and constraints of his parents. Howeverprojects are attractive, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past modern and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionuseable. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, I perhaps show my age when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1789097835
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|author=Dean Koontz
|title=QuicksilverThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetloses his job, for he's lived in loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a nunreally weird, disturbing coffin-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingsized object to his home, and now is starting a career on a needless magazineit's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden possible that whoever or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for something – call Benny it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him turns out that he go the delivery to his house is a derelict dinernew friend, find a gold coin worth a fortunebad weather friend called Spike, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for going on the lambeing a good person. And all this Spike is just in time for two going to take care of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Benny, and suggest hewill certainly take care of Benny's of interest to them. Helped to escapeenemies, if he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – Benny, and Harper (a whole lot more besideswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15420198851662500491
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Adam Stower|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Murray and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBun
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|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jasper Murray is supposed to be a little boy who has some struggleshumble, tidy and whilst we're never told why exactlyfriendly cat, we can see that he has anxiety one who is able to sleep and eat and panic attacks, eat and has difficulty dealing with change sleep and big emotions, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. His big sister, Rosie But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a huge support to himhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, talking him down when things were difficultand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, encouraging himnot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and writing whiffs. This time round it drops them into a book with himViking land, all about birdswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their businessone much bigger than Murray was, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University nowbe honest, she has promised him that she will still be there when but he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, s turned up and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen ll have to its song, as they do together every Spring.do…|isbn=13985108900008561249
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Red is My HeartFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And so was this one, although I if you could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and isthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, black and white and redwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Yes ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceOregon, and I think it's possible cautiously begins to say not one page lacks emerge from the restrictions imposed during the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183covid pandemic
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|isbn=15291355671529431735|title=One Step Too FarThe Winter Visitor|author=Lisa GardnerJames Henry|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the stag weekendmore surprising. Five of them had set out: Tim (He'd been exiled on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and JoshCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The first night they return has come about because he's had plenty of alcohol a letter from his ex- too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain wife, saying that she's ill and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnhasn't come the remaining three finally made their way back long to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Timlive. Every year, TimIt's father, Martinhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the four friends have been back sent to continue a watery grave in the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Bitter FlowersThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Varg Veum Eli is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a stint in rehab helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is now returning to worka generation missing in the family. However A few short years ago, the quiet job heEli's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationparents were both lost to the titular race, and a mystery around globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a missing womanmagical beast. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, This has made the race anathema to the pair – but also looking into an oldwhen a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear Eli knows his only hope is to dare to be linkedenter what he most hates, but what is with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the link, and how can Varg only thing to possibly unravel the truth?save his gran.|isbn=191319308X0571382231
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